Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ: Puff Pastry Pizzettes

I’m no interior designer. This has been made painfully obvious to me by my home decorating choices (more accurately called mistakes). Right now I’m trying to choose a few paint colors and I just can’t. I can’t. I need a glass of wine and a treat. Thankfully, that I can do, and easily, too, with Michel Richard’s Puff Pastry Pizzettes. These little one bite snacky hors d’oeuvres are meant to use up the scraps from the other week’s Sunny-Side Up Apricot Pastries. Homemade puff pastry (heck, even store-bought– it’s expensive!) is a no-waste situation. I only made two of the apricot pastries so I really didn’t have a whole lot of scrap to go with here and just got six pizzettes. Even so, I made two versions with goat cheese– one with tomato and the other with sautéed leeks. I’m annoyed that I forgot to put a little parsley leaf on top of each tomato one…my picture would have been cuter! See what I mean? I fail on the design details.

These were a tasty little snack with glass (or two) of wine. They were best warm, though. The room temp one I tried had definitely lost some of its crispiness.

Puff Pastry is so good ! It’s really useful too, I made a sticky mushroom and herb tart as one of my first blog posts and I keep making it. I love the fact you can get it defrosted and rolled up in the supermarkets now.

I feel your pain when it comes to home dec – I actually ended up hiring a consultant to come out and tell me what color to use! Best eighty-five bucks spent. 🙂 Your pastries look perfect! And the sautéed leeks sound delish!